Re: [yast-devel] Adding the apply buttons to services

On 04/21/2015 04:35 PM, Josef Reidinger wrote:

On Wed, 08 Apr 2015 16:56:49 +0200 Ancor Gonzalez Sosa wrote:

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I started to implement this UI for yast-dns-server and I need some veteran's feedback. https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1cVv4FY4tWRLAnMG96Cdfvw8asTNpzhFUdKn4TEq8...

Looks like most similar modules are implemented using Wizard (sometimes through CWM::DialogTree), which means only 3 buttons, namely back, abort and next.

For dns-server I could abuse the slot of the back button (seems it wouldn't be the first time[1]). But looking at the screenshots at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OA77GehzFKuoJWm0weN-bCi1BjfR2VAQNWoE1OOO... it looks that wouldn't be a generic solution, since I can see some "back" buttons there (most of them disabled, but still a problem).

Any chance of getting my "apply" button in a generic way keeping the usage of Wizard and CWM::DialogTree?

Thanks

[1] https://github.com/yast/yast-yast2/blob/master/library/wizard/src/modules/Wi...

Hi, I do not feel myself veteran enough, but having apply button that apply only services settings looks very confusing for me.

Well, actually the convenience of an apply button is the smallest problem here (is just one of the possible discussed interfaces).

Also I think there is not easy generic way how to achieve it, unless you plan to modify wizard itself: https://github.com/libyui/libyui/blob/master/src/YWizard.cc#L47 which means very intrusive ABI and API change, so I wory that there is no easy generic way unless you want to change whole wizard.

Yes, that's actually the real problem: for ncurses is quite easy (with small compatible changes to the Wizard class) to add additional content out of the tree[1] but with Qt is impossible by design of the YWizard class, in which even the action buttons are visually included in the tree[2]. The only agreement we have reached so far about a new UI (in all the discussed options, with or without apply button) is that the control of the current status of the service must be out of the tree, since it does not belong to any concrete tab (it's not a configuration option). That's not doable. With YWidget every element has to be in one tab of the tree. Period. Rethinking mode activated. [1] http://paste.opensuse.org/2181959 [2] http://paste.opensuse.org/16999740 -- Ancor González Sosa YaST Team at SUSE Linux GmbH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org